The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds
By John Bowlby
Preface by Richard Bowlby
Published September 8th 2005 by Routledge – 224 pages
Series: Routledge Classics
Description
Helping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this selection of key lectures by Bowlby includes the seminal one that gives the volume its title. Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with the author's well-known humanity and lucidity, the lectures provide an invaluable introduction to John Bowlby’s thought and work, as well as much practical guidance of use both to parents and to members of the mental health professions.
Reviews
'These essays, spanning twenty years of Bowlby's speaking about the forming and breaking of relationships of affection, are clear and systematic … They make an excellent introduction to his thought.' - British Journal of Psychiatry
Contents
R. Bowlby, Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition. Preface. Psychoanalysis and Child Care. An Ethological Approach to Research in Child Development. Childhood Mourning and its Implications for Psychiatry. Effects on Behaviour of Disruption of an Affectional Bond. Separation and Loss within the Family. Self-Reliance and Some Conditions that Promote It. The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds.
Name: The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds (Paperback) – Routledge
Description: By John BowlbyPreface by Richard Bowlby. Helping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this selection of key lectures by Bowlby includes the seminal one that gives the volume its title. Informed by wide clinical...
Categories: Developmental Psychology, Attachment, Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology - Adult
